Sunday, January 13, 2013

The researchers also predict a decrease in wave height for more than one-quarter of the world’s oceans, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere. The cause may be a northward shift of Pacific high pressure.

Calmer seas in the North Atlantic will make major shipping routes safer, says study co-author Nobuhito Mori, a wave dynamics researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, and will also give deep-sea fishermen a reason to cheer — the industry requires wave heights to be smaller than 2–5 metres, depending on the size of the boat.